University of Southern California
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Milind Tambe

Milind Tambe
 Professor,Computer Science Department
 University of Southern California
 3737 Watt Way,Powell Hall of Engineering 410
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
 Phone: (213)740-6447. Email: tambe@usc.edu

Curriculum vitae [pdf]


Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science at University of Southern California(USC). He received his Ph.D. from the School of  Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the TEAMCORE Research Group (http://teamcore.usc.edu) at USC, with research interests  in agent-based and multi-agent systems. He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and recipient of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGART Agents Research award. He is also the recipient of a special commendation given by the Los Angeles World Airports police from the city of Los Angeles (for the ARMOR program deployed at LAX since 2007), USC Viterbi School of Engineering use-inspired research award, special certificate of recognition from the department of homeland security university programs, Okawa foundation faculty research award, the RoboCup scientific challenge award, and the ACM recognition of service award. His papers have been selected as best papers or finalists for best papers at premier agents conferences and workshops including ICMAS'98, Agents'99, AAMAS'02, AAMAS'03, CEEMAS'05, SASEMAS'05, DCR'07, CTS'08, AAMAS'08, AAMAS'09. Playing a foundational role in the International Joint Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), he has previously served on the board of directors of the International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent Systems, as well as general co-chair of AAMAS (2004).

Education

PhD, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

Recent Awards

  • 2009 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Use-inspired Research Award
  • 2009 Los Angeles World Airports police special commendations from the city of Los Angeles
  • 2009 Certificate of Recognition DHS S&T University Programs for deployment of ARMOR at LAX
  • 2007 Elected Fellow of AAAI "For significant contributions to theory and software infrastructure for multi-agent systems and pioneering applications in teamwork systems"
  • 2005 ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award
  • 2003 Okawa faculty research award, 2003 for research on “agents and multiagent systems”
  • 1999 Scientific Challenge Award, RoboCup'99 International Robotic Soccer competitions, held in conjuction with IJCAI'99, for outstanding research at a RoboCup competition.
  • Best papers and Best paper finalists
    • Best paper, AAMAS'2009 Industry track Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009) given the best paper award in the industry track. The paper is entitled "IRIS - A Tool for Strategic Security Allocation in Transportation Networks".
    • Best poster DHS University Network summit'09: Our poster at the DHS University Network summit "Strategic Allocation of Federal Air Marshals" won the best poster award.
    • Finalist for Best Paper (industry track), AAMAS 2008: Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (industry track) 2008, finalist for Best Paper Award.
    • Best Paper CTS'08: Our paper from the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'2008), Multiagent adjustable autonomy framework (MAAF) for multirobot multihuman teams performing specialized tactical maneuvers was selected the "Best Paper".
    • Best Paper DCR'07: Our paper from the International workshop on Distributed constraint reasoning (DCR 2007), “Lower bounds on the quality of k-optimal DCOP solutions with respect to the global optimum” was selected the "Best Paper".
    • Best Paper SASEMAS'05: Our paper from the International workshop on safety and security in multiagent systems " Safety in multiagent systems via policy randomization" was selected the "Best paper."
    • Finalist for Best Paper, CEEMAS’2005: Our paper from the Central and Eastern European Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems 2005 (CEEMAS’2005) finalist for Best Paper Award.
    • Finalist for Best student paper AAMAS'03: Our paper from the Second International Joint conf on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents'03 " An asynchronous complete method for distributed constraint optimization " was nominated for the best student paper.
    • AAMAS'02: Our paper from the First International Joint conf on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents'02 "Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing the complexity and optimality of key theories and models" was selected the best paper
    • Agents'99: Our paper from the International conf on Autonomous Agents'99 "Experiences acquired in the design of RoboCup teams" was selected for publication in the "Best of Agents'99" special journal issue of JAAMAS.
    • ICMAS'98: Our paper from the International conf on Multi-agent Systems'98 "Towards flexible teamwork in persistent teams" was selected for publication in the "Best of ICMAS'98" special journal issue of JAAMAS.
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